Seven10 Migrates Hundreds of Millions of Patient Records to Cloud

Seven10 Storage Software, a developer of data migration and cloud-based Information ILM software, announced that Allegiance Health selected Storfirst Gateway to move, store and manage confidential patient data in the cloud.

The collaborative solution was delivered through the longstanding EMC Corp. and Seven10 Select Technology Connect Partnership.

Since 1918, Allegiance Health has offered healthcare services and promoted a progressive philosophy of overall wellness. As a healthcare provider, ot institutes responsible policies in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that call for the long-term preservation of critical patient records.

“We recognized our organization’s IT infrastructure must easily adapt to rapid innovation within the storage layer. At the same time, we were facing reliability concerns due to a change of control with our existing NetApp StorageGRID platform. As a result, Allegiance Health turned to Seven10,” said Allegiance’s information systems VP and CIO Aaron Wootton.

Seven10’s Storfirst Gateway software migrates, protects and manages records in compliance with HIPAA regulations while providing a transition from legacy storage platforms.

In addition Seven10’s Storfirst offers:

• Multiple layers of security: Encryption, file-locking, retention, multi-platform replication, portability, hashing, self-audits, tiering and write-once.
• Flexibility: The Storfirst file systems offers built-in native support of block and file-based disk, CAS, cloud (via REST) and also tape or VTL.
• Migrations: Seven10 helps companies retire and/or refresh their current storage platform by supplying secure data migrations that deliver uninterrupted access and guarantee against data loss.
  

For Allegiance, Seven10 moved legacy patient data from NetApp StorageGRID to EMC ECS cloud storage platform while providing a standard and secure SMB/CIFS (or NFS) access layer for go-forward archiving into the ECS platform. The solution of software migration plus data management eliminates the need for professional services while instituting a simplified, converged storage strategy with management that reduces complexities, cost, risk and overhead while adhering to healthcare privacy requirements.

“The combined offering from EMC and Seven10 provides Allegiance Health with an easy and safe migration solution for moving and protecting our critical patient data. Seven10’s Storfirst migration and management software is very robust, allowing us to quickly and easily adopt the EMC cloud storage platform,” said Wootton.

“Traditional IT upgrades are time consuming, exhaustive and cost prohibitive. Seven10 understands there needs to be a better way to transition from legacy storage to next generation technology,” said Bobby Moulton, president and CEO, Seven10. “We designed Storfirst to change how the healthcare industry approaches storage refresh projects so as to eliminate any interruptions in the patient care process. Putting an end to storage obsolescence means Allegiance Health spends far less time worrying about data migration efforts and more time on what matters most – patient care.“